Historians examine how repeated slogans can brainwash an audience into accepting claims that the available evidence plainly contradicts.
历史学家研究反复出现的口号如何给受众洗脑，使其接受现有证据明显否定的说法。
Which choice best defines “brainwash”?
A — To make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them it is true. “brainwash” means to make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them it is true.
Which word means “to make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them it is true”?
D — brainwash. “brainwash” means to make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them it is true.
brainwash — to make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them it is true. In Chinese: 洗脑.
brainwash is pronounced /ˈbreɪnwɒʃ/.
Historians examine how repeated slogans can brainwash an audience into accepting claims that the available evidence plainly contradicts. (历史学家研究反复出现的口号如何给受众洗脑，使其接受现有证据明显否定的说法。)
indoctrinate, condition, manipulate — all close in meaning to brainwash (to make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them it is true).
enlighten, educate — each the opposite of brainwash (to make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them it is true).
Yes. brainwash is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.